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May 2010

Here's a little watercooler chat for your office: B.J. Novak -- of TV's The Office -- will be hosting the 14th Annual Webby Awards on June 14 in New York City. The Webby Awards, which highlight excellence in web content, has become basically the Osca...

We're pleased to announce that the Mashable iPhone app , launched in February, surpassed 100,000 downloads today. Here are some of the numbers: 100,607: total number of downloads 1,670,994: total number of sessions 7640 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes, 47...

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We're pleased to announce the launch today of the Mashable iPad app. Just like our popular iPhone App (100,000+ downloads!) we wanted to do something innovative with the new opportunities provided by the iPad interface. Features include: 1. Landscape...

Steve Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, a video Curation and Publishing platform. Rosenbaum is a blogger, video maker and documentarian. You can follow him on Twitter @magnify and read more about Curation at CurationNation.org. For website content...

Face.com -- makers of facial detection and recognition products for Facebook photos -- aims to extend photo tagging across the web. The service has released its API, which developers can now use to build photo-tagging capabilities on their own websit...

Google has increased its commitment to clean and sustainable energy with a sizable investment in two wind farms. The company will put $38.3 million into two NextEra Energy Resources wind farms to speed the process of serving consumers with renewable ...

Xbox 360 gamers who purchased the Halo 3 spin-off Halo 3: ODST can now take part in the multi-player public beta test for the first-person shooter game Halo: Reach, the second game in the Halo series that's not directly associated with the original t...

Update: Twitter has responded to us and we've picked up a screenshot of embedded tweets: Both are at the bottom of this post. --- A new blog post from the Twitter media team suggests that the company will launch an embeddable tweets feature sometime ...

At least when it comes to web traffic -- which could be a good indicator of tickets bought and seats filled -- the United-Continental merger could create a combined airline to soar past American and compete with Southwest and Delta. Stats from Hitwis...

Ah, cellphones and dodgeball, they go together like... well... they don't really go together at all, but that's not stopping Samsung Mobile from organizing what will purportedly be the world's largest dodgeball game on May 12. The practice of launchi...

It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Is your event not on this list? Contact us at l...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. It's amazing how fast a social network can catch on. The most recent exam...

Everyone loves a good mystery -- add in some pretty decent music and rad visuals and you've got a viral win. Today, mysterious YouTube sensation iamamiwhoami released a new vid, and it's just as baffling as the previous eight. iamamiwhoami came on th...

Another mainstream media outlet is dipping its toes into online. "TODAY in 2 Minutes" is a new online-only feature of The Today Show. The show will feature host Natalie Morales and will include two minutes of Today content, including weather, news he...

When consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo prepared for Mother's Day by conducting a survey of parents' social media practices, it found that nearly half (48%) of parents add their children as friends on Facebook. Parents admitted that "it can b...

Hello there, music fans! As always, we appreciate your tuning in to this week's edition of Free Music Monday, wherein we offer you 10 free tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter. Please enjoy this week's eclectic selection of free t...

Welcome once again to our long-running Faceoff Series, wherein we pit two web services, apps or gadgets against each other in a knock-down, drag-out fight to win the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. We've had some heated matchups here lately, fr...

If you're a fan of cloud storage service Dropbox and own an iPad, it's your lucky day. The iPhone version was already quite good, but Dropbox has now updated the app for better iPad support. The new version of the app, available for free here , makes...

Poor iPad -- it's only been on the market for a month, and it's already been beaten to bits with a baseball bat, blended and generally abused in every possible way. In hopefully the last act of aggression against this beautiful piece of technology, t...

Since Kevin Rose took the helm at Digg, the service hasn't been introducing new features but killing old ones. First, Digg got rid of the DiggBar, and now a related feature has been (almost) shut down: the Digg URL shortener. Although Digg calls this...

Demand for Evernote's notetaking tool is growing at an ever increasing rate. The startup has just surpassed three million users, which means the company has attracted more than one million new users in four months and that growth is rapidly accelerat...

In the UK, Google was forced to give its e-mail service Gmail a different name, Googlemail, because of a trademark dispute. These disputes take a long time (Gmail was changed into Googlemail in October 19, 2005), so Google opted to use a different (y...

Buddy Media already helps big brands do more with their Facebook presence. Today the company is extending its service to include Facebook Open Graph integration. This update is about connecting the dots between user activity on and off Facebook -- th...

Foursquare is down. According to Twitter reports, the service has been unavailable for at least four hours. The site displays an error message and Foursquare's own downtime mascot, the Pouty Princess. Perhaps it's too early to draw comparisons, but a...

Mashable is honored to have won three Webby Awards in the categories Best Cultural Blog (Webby Award) and Best Business Blog (Webby Award and People's Voice). We're thankful to all the readers who voted for us. The Webbys, now in its 14th year, honor...

Yeah, pop band OK Go might have nabbed a Webby for Film & Video Artist of the Year, but you know what they say: Mockery is the sincerest form of flattery... Or something like that... In any case, comedians and online-video makers The Fine Brothers ha...

David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and the founder of the firm Spark Media Solutions, which gives voice to companies by building their media network. Spark can be seen and heard regularly on Cranky Geeks, and blogs regularly at Spark Minute. Fo...

ChoiceVendor, a Yelp-like review service aimed at the B2B space, has left beta and officially launches today. ChoiceVendor aims to do what peer-review services like Yelp and Angie's List do in the consumer space, but with denizens of the business sph...

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